Questions and Replies

The right of Members to put questions to Ministers is an important part of ensuring the executive authority’s accountability to the Provincial Parliament. Questions may be put to Ministers related to their spheres of responsibility. Replies to questions are either given orally in the House or in writing. The replies to oral questions are recorded in Hansard.

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Question Question Number Date Question Link

With reference to his reply to question 20 publish in the Question Paper for Written Reply on 6 September 2019 and in the Question Paper for Oral Reply on 3 October 2019:

(1) What are the details of the court cases or court actions that halted the housing projects at (a) Pickwick Street, Woodstock, (b) the Fruit and Veg site, Cape Town’s inner city, (c) the Woodstock Hospital site, Woodstock, (d) the New Market site at the edge of the inner city, (e) Woodstock Park, Woodstock, and (f) the foreshore freeway (a combination of inner-city housing and transport improvement which was to be undertaken at no cost to ratepayers) and resulted in the cancellation of the provisioning of well-located housing for thousands of families;

(2) whether he deliberately misled the House by suggesting that the Maiden’s Cove project was my project while it was indeed led by Deputy Mayor Ian Neilson?

 1 18 October 2019 9959

 

  1. What impact has the closure of Sassa offices had on the provision of social-distress relief across the Western Cape, (b) how many telephone calls has her Department received during the crisis and (c) what is the breakdown of these telephone calls by category?

 

 7 8 May 2020 9958
  1. Whether any employees from his Department rent homes from his Department in Sanddrift, Cape Town; if so, (a) how many, (b) what is the job level of each person and (c) what salary does each person earn;
  2. whether any of these employees receive a housing subsidy from the Western Cape Government; if so, what is the amount of the subsidy
 3 15 November 2019 9957
  1. How many shelters for vulnerable women and children are currently operating in the lockdown period and (b) how many vulnerable persons have utilised the services of these shelters?
 6 8 May 2020 9956

With regard to food relief:

 

  1. How are beneficiaries identified, (b) how does her Department support the work of NGOs that are carrying out emergency relief, (c) what mechanisms are in place to prevent any wastage and the improper distribution of food parcels to beneficiaries and (d) how much social-development assistance in terms of food parcels has been provided to the Kannaland Municipality during the lockdown period?
 5 8 May 2020 9955

With regard to the travel of essential services seasonal workers with homes outside the Western Cape:

 

  1. Approximately how many of these seasonal workers indicated a preference to return to their homes outside the Western Cape after the end of the deciduous fruit season and
  2. how many of them were able to make use of the window period during the first week of May 2020 that allowed them to cross provincial boundaries?
 3 8 May 2020 9954

(a) How does the allocated budget for the eradication of alien vegetation in the province compare with the ideal amounts required to address the need to eradicate alien vegetation in our nature areas effectively and (b) to what extent must the Western Cape provincial budget be spent on exit areas previously used by the national government’s former Department of Forestry for its plantations;

Whether the national Department of Environmental Affairs is contributing to the efforts to eradicate alien vegetation in the province; if so, what are the relevant details?

 4 8 May 2020 9953

With regard to the “Local Government: Municipal Finance Management Act: Quarterly Consolidated Statement: Quarter 3 ending 31 March 2020” gazetted on 30 April 2020 and the City of Cape Town’s draft budget for 2020/21:

The remuneration of councillors for 2019/20 is budgeted as R179 818 000. This includes R18 225 000 identified by the City of Cape Town as “other benefits and allowances”.

  1. (a) What constitutes the amount of R18 225 000 for “other benefits and

   allowances” and (b) who are the councillors or employees who receive

   these “benefits and allowances”;

  1.  whether this amount constitutes the salaries of political appointees; if so,   

   what appointments are included;

  1. what are the remuneration costs of the Office of the Executive Mayor of the City of Cape Town?

 

 2 8 May 2020 9952

On Thursday 30 April 2020 the Langeberg Local Municipality allegedly carried out an eviction and demolition in Ashbury, Montagu.

  1. (a) Why was an eviction carried out in contravention of the Disaster Management Act (57/2002): Directions issued in terms of Regulation 10 of the Regulations under the Act, dated 26 March 2020, and (b) which law enforcement agency or entity carried out the eviction and demolition;

 

  1. whether the City of Cape Town’s law enforcement or private security service providers were involved in the eviction and demolition; if so, why?

 

 1 8 May 2020 9951

in the light of recent comments made by the Premier, and the governing DA, that suggest that the Western Cape is now embracing a “herd immunity” approach to the virus, whether the Western Cape provincial government is adopting a “herd immunity” policy towards this virus; if so, what are the relevant details;

 5 22 May 2020 9950

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